Barn Life: Farm Buildings Find New Roles
Merrall Hildreth’s BarnWhile Southampton and East Hampton’s architectural style is largely defined by the old shingle-style cottage surrounded by formal gardens or privet hedge, in Bridgehampton and Sagaponack, it’s the barns that define the historic landscape of the past.
There are still probably more barns in the area than any other on the South Fork. Today they are used as pool houses, summer cottages, art studios, garages — and yes, in rare cases, even barns. But no matter their design or style, they were all originally built for the same purpose — to house animals, farming equipment, feed or produce that earlier generations of farming families relied on for their livelihood.
Bridgehampton and Sagaponack’s quintessential barns will be the focus of a tour this Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. sponsored by the Bridgehampton Historical Society. The self-guided “Bridgehampton Barn Tour” is the brainchild of Sally Spanburgh, the historical society’s program coordinator. Her original idea was to offer a house tour, but when she began to consider the focus of this year’s summer exhibits at the historical society, she had a change of mind.
“When we determined our exhibits this year, it turned out to be all about farms and farming families,” explains Spanburgh. “I thought why not a barn tour?”
So Spanburgh drove around the area, made note of where the barns were and sent letters asking owners if they might consider opening their barns to the public.
As a result, 10 barns will be on view on Saturday. They sit on property that has been farmed as far back as the 1600s, and most of the barns date to the 1800s. Included on the tour are three that are still working structures — Art Ludlow’s Mecox Dairy Farm barn, the Milk Pail’s Sprayer Barns and the Comfort Farm barn on Lumber Lane (where you can pick up strawberries from the self-service stand in front of the property).
Architecturally speaking, Spanburgh explains that barns don’t typically have well documented lineage like famous houses in the area do. But that’s because these functional structures were erected with little fanfare and a specific purpose in mind.
“Barns were built by hired people,” she notes. “It was a rare thing that a famed architect would build a barn.”
One of the barns on the tour that did get an architectural make-over is the circa 1790 structure built by Nathan Pierson on Sagg Main Street. In the 1960s it was turned into a rustic two story living space with soaring ceilings, fireplace and loft style sleeping quarters.
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“The salt box barn attached is the garage and the living quarters are in the former carriage house,” explains Spanburgh. “Often there were sleeping quarters for the person who worked the carriage house. And even if the owners did something other than
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